Movie Review: Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island is a serviceable checklist summer blockbuster in March: Good looking leads? Check. CGI Spectacle/Action? Check. Cartoonishly line delivering bad guy? Check. Franchise …
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Movie Review: Logan
The early buzz on Logan was bafflingly praiseworthy. Ryan Reynolds mentioned Hugh Jackman should win an Oscar for his performance. Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman …
Movie Review: Get Out
Normally, saying a horror movie like Get Out comes from the creative mind of a comedian would draw puzzled looks from an audience. However, Jordan …
Movie Review: The Great Wall
Expectations matter a great deal for The Great Wall. Ignore the prestige behind and in front of the camera, and laugh as I did with …
Movie Review: Fifty Shades Darker
Drop your pants everyone! Fifty Shades Darker is here to fulfill your desperate suburban sexual repression. It’s so stupid that its kinda fun at times …
Movie Review: The LEGO Batman Movie
Turns out to make a DC comic fun all we needed were Legos. For a movie idea that seems solely built for product placement, the …
Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 2
Whoever wrote the John Wick book clearly knows it’s gonna end quickly. After a bloody reentrance back into the hitman world last chapter, Keanu Reeves …
Movie Review: Elle
Paul Verhoeven must have a fascinating inner life. The dude brought to life really interesting movies like Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct and Robocop, but also …
Movie Review: The Salesman
Asghar Farhadi is in the current director pantheon, in my opinion. Farhadi, Richard Linklater, Park Chan-wook, and Adam McKay are on the Mt. Rushmore of …
Movie Review: Paterson
It’s really hard to tell a story about a normal person where nothing happens to them. Only Richard Linklater can make movies about nothing that …